The Kremlin will check the compliance with anti-corruption legislation by the head of United Russia in Moscow, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Andrei Metelsky. This is stated in the response to a request from State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin. Vedomosti has familiarized itself with the letter. The head of the presidential administration for combating corruption, Andrei Chobotov, sent a response to Rashkin.

The House of Commons, the lower house of the British parliament, has approved a bill to ban a hard Brexit, BBC News reports. The document obliges British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask the EU to delay Brexit from October 31 to January 31, 2020, if the British parliament does not approve the deal with Brussels by mid-October. The bill was passed by 327 members of parliament, with 299 against. It will now go to the House of Lords.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a man was detained who fired at the car of the film crew of the film "Chiki". Interfax was informed about this in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident took place in the town of Prokhladny. A local resident fired several shots at the film group's car from the window of a multi-storey building. Shooting was carried out from a Saiga hunting rifle, the source of Interfax specified.

Twitter users will temporarily be unable to post tweets via SMS. Technical support of the social network reported this. The feature has been blocked to fix vulnerabilities. It is reported that it will be restored in the future. When this will happen is unknown. As The Verge notes , the ability to publish tweets via SMS was important for Twitter users in the early days of the social network, but is now rarely used.

German automaker Porsche has unveiled its first electric car, the Taycan sports sedan. The novelty is presented in two versions - Taycan Turbo S and Taycan Turbo. The flagship version of the Turbo S accelerates to 100 kilometers per hour in 2.8 seconds, Turbo in 3.2 seconds. The maximum speed of both models is 260 kilometers per hour. The range of Turbo S is 412 kilometers, Turbo - 450 km. Both models have two electric motors. The capacity of their batteries is 93 kilowatt-hours.

‘Meduza’ interviews creator of new documentary about Russian Internet's rise Yuri Kadobnov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Andrey Loshak This week, the television and digital network Current Time will release “Holy War,” a new miniseries by journalist Andrey Loshak about the evolution of the Russian Internet, spanning the first experiments on the Web to the rise of giant corporations, covering everything from the first startup investments to the explosion of government regulations and the arrest of

American singer Billy Ailish published a video for the song “All the Good Girls Go to Hell” from her debut album “Will We All Fall Asleep, What Do We Go?” Released in March 2019. In the new video, Ailish appears in the image of an angel who fell from the sky in a deep puddle of oil. In the first two hours after the publication, the video gained almost half a million views.

Rapper Oksimiron presented a new track. The song is only 49 seconds long. She was recorded to participate in the 17th independent battle site Hip-hop.ru. The first round of the battle started in June, entries are accepted until September 9th. The theme of the round is "On a long journey." The new track of Oksimiron is also called. The last time Oksimiron participated in an online battle on Hip-hop.ru in 2009.

The state prosecution has requested four and a half years in a general regime penal colony for Konstantin Kotov, who is accused under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding a rally. This was reported by Mediazona. The Kotov case was investigated in record time: the activist was detained on August 12, and on August 15, the Investigative Committee announced the end of the investigation.

Apple has patented a new authentication method that can identify the owner of the Apple Watch by the skin, according to TechCrunch. An infrared sensor is going to be built into the strap, which will create a thermal map of the wrist and remember the individual features of the skin, for example, its texture. To unlock the Apple Watch in this case, you do not need to enter a pin code.

Update: Andrey Rogozov was one of the employees who worked on the structures of the social network’s various databases in the early years of VKontakte’s existence, according to a statement from VK received by Meduza. “Each such database is just one of many elements of VK,” the social network emphasized. VKontakte named its executive director Andrey Rogozov, not Pavel Durov, as the creator of its user base.

Google and its YouTube video hosting service will pay $170 million in fines for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act , the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced. The FTC and the New York attorney general's office launched an investigation into Google and YouTube in 2018. The agencies concluded that YouTube used cookies to collect personal information about viewers of its children's channels who were under 13 years old, without asking their parents' permission.

Advisor to US President Ivanka Trump arrived in the capital of Colombia Bogota on an official visit. At a meeting with the country's vice-president, Martha Lucia Ramirez and the Defense Minister Guillermo Bothermo, Donald Trump, put on a green dress of the Colombian designer Oykhanna Ortiz-with sleeves-Voulans and a fitted top. And everything was fine. Until the wind blew ... Guillermo Legaria Schweizer / Getty Images Photo by Ivanka Trump with upset sleeves instantly turned into a meme.

Initami was originally created as a social network in which users share their photos. But over time, everything began to upload there: memes, long texts, fragments of music clips (and documentary films too). Many publish screenshots of funny tweets on Instagram. This happens so often that in social networks the expression "screenshots of Twitter - this is not memes." The Twitter user @miagrassia28 also paid attention to the trend.

At first he was declared “Russian troll”, but now everything is on his side GEOFF BURKE / USA TODAY Sports / Scanpix / Leta Daniil Medvedev during the US Open match against Dominic Kepfer. September 2, 2019 Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev continues a series of victories at the opening championship of the United States, which started on August 26 in New York.